They are decidedly more primitive in their way than any other Indians, having scarcely any arts worth mentioning.

All this while I was gathering material for work, jotting down in my note-book themes and melodies, and trying to catch the spirit of the Negro in his relatively primitive state.

Her face was flushed, her eyes sparkling with that dress-rage than which no emotion known to woman is more fiercely primitive.

The change since the days when Bates and Wallace came to this then poor and utterly primitive region is marvellous.

It is a deliciously primitive and remarkably common-place concern; but it is strong enough, and will have to stop where it is until money for something better is raised.

Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive.

I have outgrown all this; my tastes have become exceedingly primitive,almost, perhaps, ascetic.

Astrology was not incipient astronomy; nor was alchemy primitive chemistry; the end and aim in each case was wholly different.

He worked on a farm in some incredibly primitive capacity, and the only thing that he denounced was the quality of the beer at the "Waggon and Horses."

Is it necessary to urge that you accept this obviously primitive classification of the human faculties?

As we read further the singularly primitive and barbarous ritual of the service of knightly reception in the twelfth century, one is persuaded that the words exhale a German odor, and have nothing Roman about them.

As it is, it throws more light on the life history of this strangely primitive bird.

In those sturdily primitive days the rich youth of the land had not so universally gone abroad as they do now, and "the proper thing" among the "well born" was not so distinctly laid down in the code of the élite.

The World Wide Web, whose rather opaque platform ascended primarily for its ability to serve as an online catalogue, has been adapted to serve many of the internet's original, more technologically primitive functions.

Yet it is impossible to believe that compared with other ways of employing time and energy, the hours that women spend in cooking and cleaning for the family, even if on unavoidably primitive lines, have no value to the community.

There was something horribly primitive about the struggle, but it fascinated.

The words, however, were astonishingly primitive, especially the first line, which, when it burst from their eight throats in high unison, sent me into fits of laughter.

His style was obviously quite independent of any Mughal influence and it is rather to the separate tradition of painting which had grown up in Malwa that we must look for its salient qualitiesa tensely rhythmical line, a flamboyant use of strong emphatic colours, vigorous simplifications and boldly primitive idioms for plants and trees.

Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive.